Books, boxing and beauty: Eye of the beholder
CB Forrest Critics have been predicting the death of the book industry for decades, and even louder voices long ago foretold the end of boxing. But somebody forgot to tell …
John Prine and the legacy of artistic work ethic
John Prine might have thought about writing a song at some point about a lucky fellow who records a number one hit but dies before he can hear it on …
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Hangover At Sunrise
Sometimes it’s not what you do, but what you fail to do. An oversight that seems insignificant atthe time can mean the difference between life and death. It is easy to …
“As a writer you make your own weather”: Eoin McNamee
Irish crime writer Eoin McNamee on style, voice, and the imperative to be renegade There is perhaps no greater, more perplexing, and ultimately rewarding journey for the writer than the …
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Pinky Promise
Short fiction originally published August 2011 in Issue #21, Bloodlotus Journal By CB Forrest It ends with a man so deranged by love that he taints the soup at the wedding …
Searching for Buddha Between the Bars of the Cage
‘To know absolute loss, to suffer real guilt, to look back on how you have betrayed most of what you thought of as decent and good – that is a stripped-down …
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CBC: Author C.B. Forrest on meth & murder
There’s no shortage of drugs in C.B. Forrest’s latest crime novel The Devil’s Dust. The one that everyone in the book is most concerned about is crystal meth — and the effect …
EMC News: The Devil’s Dust ends trilogy on a high note
EMC news – Glen Cairn author C.B. Forrest released the third and final novel in the Charlie McKelvey trilogy on Tuesday, June 12. The Devil’s Dust follows McKelvey as he …
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Publishers Weekly Review: …Forrest’s exceptional third Charlie McKelvey novel
Unusual conviction revitalizes familiar material in Arthur Ellis Award–finalist Forrest’s exceptional third Charlie McKelvey novel (after 2010’s Slow Recoil). Having lost his family and his job as a Toronto police …
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2016 Shamus Award nominee
The Runaway Girl From Portland, Oregon — the second in a series to be published by Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine — is nominated for a 2016 Shamus Award. The story …